The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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The development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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